The season was marked by the embrace of seven Black playwrights, from contemporary writers like Dominique Morisseau, Keenan Scott II and Antoinette Nwandu, to underappreciated historical playwrights like Alice Childress and Ntozake Shange. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)Ī starry revival of the classic show "The Music Man" with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster walked away empty-handed despite six nominations and being a box office smash, regularly pulling in more than $3 million a week. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 12: Jennifer Hudson attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Jin New York City. "It’s wonderful to present humanity in all it’s fullness," Rashad said.Īnd the Tonys ushered in the latest EGOT winner: Jennifer Hudson, who has an Emmy, Grammy and Oscar, and joined that elite group Sunday when "A Strange Loop" won best musical - she’s a producer. Phylicia Rashad won best featured actress in a play for "Skeleton Crew." The Dominique Morisseau play is about blue-collar job insecurity set in a Detroit auto stamping plant. Still panting while welcoming viewers, she told the crowd that this was the season "Broadway got it’s groove back."
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Host Ariana DeBose kicked off her portion of the show in a sparkling white jumpsuit and wide-brimmed hat, dancing and singing to the song "This Is Your Round of Applause," which mashed up shards of musical theater favorites, like "Chicago, "The Wiz," "Evita," "Rent," "Hair," "Cabaret," "Hairspray" and "West Side Story," the movie remake for which she recently won an Oscar. I told you it would be OK," said Ferguson, who also thanked his understudy and his husband. "Mom, Dad, thank you for letting me move to New York when I was 17-years-old. "Take Me Out" won for best play revival, and "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson won the Tony for best featured actor in a play for his work in it. On Sunday, O’Connell urged the crowd to ignore safe options and "make the weird art." O’Connell never speaks, instead, lip-syncing to an edited recording of the survivor. It was crowned best new play and Sam Mendes won for best direction of a play, praising the season for its "rampant creativity." One of its three stars, Simon Russell Beale, won for best actor in a play and thanked the audience for coming to see a trio of British actors tell a New York story.ĭeirdre O’Connell won for best actress in a play for her work in "Dana H.," about a real woman kidnapped by a former convict and white supremacist. "The Lehman Trilogy," spanning 150 years and running three and a half hours, follows the fortunes of a single family into the financial crash of 2008. Matt Doyle won for best featured actor in a musical for "Company." Patti LuPone won best featured actress in a musical for her work in the revival, thanking COVID-19 safety officials in her acceptance speech. Marianne Elliott made Tony history by becoming the only woman to have won three Tonys for directing, the latest for "Company." She thanked Sondheim for letting her put a woman "front and center." She dedicated her award to everyone fighting to keep theaters open. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples were swapped. "Company" is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. Earlier in the night, she blew the house down with a stunning performance of the musical's "Let It Burn."Ī gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim’s "Company" rode the fondness Broadway has for the late iconic composer by earning five statuettes, including best musical revival. Joaquina Kalukango won the Tony for best leading actress in a musical for her work in "Paradise Square," a show about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Performers Celebrate Reopening of Broadway in New York CityĪ group of Broadway performers led by Lin-Manuel Miranda belted out a rendition of Frank Sinatra’s "New York, New York" to celebrate the reopening of Broadway shows in New York on September 14.